章 155: Chapter 155

After sending a group of cultivators to Orixe, Axel prepared for the next steps of his plan.

"Ok, now we have to prepare the field for them to make their "discovery". Heaven, you are capable of making magical beasts develop runes on their bodies, right?" Axel asked.

"Yes, thanks to the privileges I have over the add-ons, I would be able to do it without much of a problem," Heaven replied.

"Nice, then let's make some runes appear in areas near the academy's branch of those three cultivators. And in Orixe, make the runes appear near the chosen there. We will create a plan for them later."

"As you wish."

Following Axel's command, Heaven made runes appear on the bodies of a few magical beasts and magical plants. Thanks to their new powers and skills, those magical beasts soon grew stronger than their peers, breaking the balance of power in their territories.

That situation caused massive migrations of magical beasts or the rapid descending of their numbers, which in both cases alerted the cultivators that something wasn't right.

Because of that, the local factions would do their best to understand the current situation, for example, by sending scouts to explore the area and return to report their discoveries.

That would be the cultivator's reason for visiting the nearby areas and finding one of the runes.

'But how do I manage to get them sent to those areas and then investigate the runes?'

But then, he remembered something he had read in one of the cultivator's notes.

'That one. What was his name again? Nathan? The information said something about a theory his father told him about.'

Without losing a second, Axel made Nathan's information appear before him and began to read it. Not only did his name, age, and cultivation stage appear, but there were also physical details and a summary of his life until that point.

One of the things the summary said was that Nathan's father tried to enter the Ventar Academy but failed, ending up in the Lumite Academy instead. Not only that, but it also mentioned that one of the reasons why his father wanted to enter the Ventar Academy was because they had proposed "The Theory of the Ever-Changing Phases".

Even after being rejected, Nathan's father still admired the idea behind the theory, and he couldn't help but tell his son about it.

Every few months, his father would interpret any minor change in anything to claim that the world had entered a new phase and that they should do their best to adapt before they were destroyed.

These ideas and actions left a big impression on Nathan, who ended up sharing the same beliefs as his father, although not with as much fanaticism as him.

Axel believed that if he surprised Nathan, he would need to confirm if the world had entered a new "phase" or not.

"Heaven, make sure the magical beasts the three cultivators are sent are extra impressive. Not necessarily more powerful, but make sure they are surprised when they see them." Axel said.

"I will do my best," Heaven replied.

After that, he continued planning to make sure the chosen from Eden found the runes too, and as they weren't a group like the ones in Orixe, he had to make a few plans to make sure at least three were a success.

After that, he continued watching over the cultivators, and with the Orixe's cultivators being the first to start investigating the runes, they managed to inscribe their first item in just a few days.

'They can draw energy from their surroundings and use it for anything. Sounds interesting.' Axel thought before realizing something. 'Interesting and overpowered. If they use that rune to cultivate, their cultivation speed will skyrocket. I need to do something to prevent it.'

Axel made the core of his world appear before his eyes, and after thinking for a few seconds, the cultivation add-on began to shine.

"Cultivators could use the energy drawn from the runes to cultivate, but that would cause their dantians to atrophy as they wouldn't be making any effort to cultivate. Even though cultivating with the rune may be worth just a few times, if someone were to use it constantly, they would find it harder to cultivate regularly later and would need to recover their speed over time, and when reaching higher ranks, they would find their speed reduced compared with their peers." As the cultivation rune changed insignificantly, Axel said.

'With this, they shouldn't abuse the runes to cultivate, not at least they want to ruin their foundation.' He thought as he smiled.